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Henry Benjamin Whipple Bishop of Minnesota Sioux Indians
Henry Benjamin Whipple Bishop of Minnesota Sioux Indians
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Nook version of vintage magazine article originally published in 1902. Contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 110 years.
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The mile-stones in the bishop's life are few. His greatness lies in the way he trod those miles. Born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1822, he was educated at Oberlin, and engaged for a short time in business. Ordained to the ministry in 1850, he served for seven years as rector of Zion Church, Rome, New York, and for two years at the Church of the Holy Communion, Chicago. In 1859, still a man wholly unknown to the church at large, he was chosen bishop of the newly set off diocese of Minnesota. The forty-two years of his episcopate are the arena of his struggle and his fame.
We will look at those years in the light of the characteristics already mentioned.
His courage was preeminently shown in his attitude toward the Indians. He was the Indians' bishop from the first. His dignity, his reserve, the humor lurking behind the sober mien, his truthfulness and stanch loyalty, they lovingly dubbed him "Straight Tongue," put him at once in touch with the Indian nature. Add to this his sense of justice, a dominant characteristic, and it was natural that the Indian problem should be almost the first problem faced on his coming to Minnesota as its bishop. Facing the problem, he fearlessly faced the Indians' enemies and their more discouraging lukewarm friends. He had to convert both the House of Bishops and Congress. He lived to see his conception of what was due the Indian, and of what the Indian was capable of, in a large measure successful.
How we loved to hear him, in public and private, talk of the Indian: now a quaint story of Indian stolidity, of unsuspected humor; now a touching tale of personal loyalty and Christian faith; now a striking record of how the Christian Indian Andrew Good Thunder. (Wa-kin-yan-was-te) saved the American settlements at the time of the Sioux outbreak in 1862.
Bishop Whipple believed in the Indian; he believed all the good stories he told of him, he compelled a like belief in his unwilling brother bishops, in the prejudiced, even hostile clergy and laity and citizens of Minnesota.
The Christian Indians came to be a recognized and welcome feature of a church council. Their presence to-day, still frequently in their blanket garb, is a picturesque reminder, in prosperous St. Paul and Minneapolis, in commercial Duluth and in educational Faribault, of the former masters and recent civilization of those proud cities.
Enmegahbowh, baptized John Johnson, is a name familiar in missionary circles throughout the whole American church. He was an early convert, a stanch friend of the bishop, and his companion on many arduous journeys. He is still living, the rector emeritus of St. Columba, White Earth.
Read excerpt -
The mile-stones in the bishop's life are few. His greatness lies in the way he trod those miles. Born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1822, he was educated at Oberlin, and engaged for a short time in business. Ordained to the ministry in 1850, he served for seven years as rector of Zion Church, Rome, New York, and for two years at the Church of the Holy Communion, Chicago. In 1859, still a man wholly unknown to the church at large, he was chosen bishop of the newly set off diocese of Minnesota. The forty-two years of his episcopate are the arena of his struggle and his fame.
We will look at those years in the light of the characteristics already mentioned.
His courage was preeminently shown in his attitude toward the Indians. He was the Indians' bishop from the first. His dignity, his reserve, the humor lurking behind the sober mien, his truthfulness and stanch loyalty, they lovingly dubbed him "Straight Tongue," put him at once in touch with the Indian nature. Add to this his sense of justice, a dominant characteristic, and it was natural that the Indian problem should be almost the first problem faced on his coming to Minnesota as its bishop. Facing the problem, he fearlessly faced the Indians' enemies and their more discouraging lukewarm friends. He had to convert both the House of Bishops and Congress. He lived to see his conception of what was due the Indian, and of what the Indian was capable of, in a large measure successful.
How we loved to hear him, in public and private, talk of the Indian: now a quaint story of Indian stolidity, of unsuspected humor; now a touching tale of personal loyalty and Christian faith; now a striking record of how the Christian Indian Andrew Good Thunder. (Wa-kin-yan-was-te) saved the American settlements at the time of the Sioux outbreak in 1862.
Bishop Whipple believed in the Indian; he believed all the good stories he told of him, he compelled a like belief in his unwilling brother bishops, in the prejudiced, even hostile clergy and laity and citizens of Minnesota.
The Christian Indians came to be a recognized and welcome feature of a church council. Their presence to-day, still frequently in their blanket garb, is a picturesque reminder, in prosperous St. Paul and Minneapolis, in commercial Duluth and in educational Faribault, of the former masters and recent civilization of those proud cities.
Enmegahbowh, baptized John Johnson, is a name familiar in missionary circles throughout the whole American church. He was an early convert, a stanch friend of the bishop, and his companion on many arduous journeys. He is still living, the rector emeritus of St. Columba, White Earth.
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